Best Watercolor Portraits By Famous Artists

Here is a list of top artists who are famous for their amazing watercolor portraits. I have selected the best watercolor artists to showcase their beautiful paintings. Watercolor is a medium that demands great skill and experience. Painting a portrait using this medium with utmost perfection is often a challenge for beginners in watercolor painting.

Painting a watercolor portrait requires good idea of light and shade. It needs to be handled carefully to obtain a natural look for the painting. After several layers, one can bring the painting into a beautiful piece of artwork. Sometimes you can paint from life or can use a photograph for reference. It would be much easier if you know your subject deeply. This would make things much more easier while painting. I have gone through several watercolor portrait paintings and hand picked a few spectacular portraits for my readers.Enjoy! 🙂

Watercolor Portraits By Famous Artists

Yie Xian Min

Bhuwan SilhareStan Miller

Rogger Oncoy

Samir Mondal

Watercolor Portrait by Shi Tao

Liu Yun Sheng

Uday Bhan

Aud Rye

Sarath Chandran

If you know about any amazing watercolor portraits, please mention in the comment section!

i just started water colour classes, was checking out the different styles..like the ones you’ve shown,Yie Xian Min and Shi’s attention to detail is incredible…Samir’s really catches the eye..can only pray to be as good as any one of them some day.

Mumbai always fascinated Artist Bhuwan Silhare. He made a series of paintings in and around V.T.(CST) from different angles at different times and different seasons to bring out the best profile of the structures, to give back to the city which never failed to charm him. He held his solo exhibition of paintings – Mumbai Forever at the Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery in Mumbai.

I paint in a similar genre as Samir Mondal. My portraiture works are at lobenbergart.com. An article on my self portraiture will appear in the 2014 September issue of “The Art Of Watercolour” magazine.

These are great. I recently found another artist, Jason Edward Collinge, whom I like a lot. Jason does some amazing water colour pieces using only the three primary hues, red, blue, and yellow. If you would like to view them they are in the Visual Work section of his web-site among his various galleries. Check them out if you have time.